rear main seal leak

Bernie Benz b.benz at charter.net
Fri Jan 14 12:59:19 PST 2011 

Jeez! Check your CC breather system. Got oil in your distributor?
On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> I'm going this route with my urq.  The air leaking past the rear  
> main seal
> makes an awful noise.  I've got a standard bearing sealer in there  
> now, but
> I'm not sure it's doing anything.  I've got the more "special" rear  
> bearing
> seal restorer juice on the shelf waiting to go in.  I recall that  
> it used to
> be quiet after an oil change, but the longer I leave old oil in  
> there, the
> more often it is noisy.
>
> Ed
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v- 
> bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Bernie Benz
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:40 PM
> To: auditude at cox.net
> Cc: 200q20V mailing list
> Subject: Re: rear main seal leak
>
>
> I've not heard of nor used that one but it should work as well as any
> of the many others.
> Requires at least 1K miles to be effective, if the seals are
> otherwise good. I've used CD2, Bars Leak, and others, usually
> whatever is on sale. Works in tranny and rear end also, any rotary
> shaft seal, not on gasket leaks.
>
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:44 AM, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bernie,
>>
>> Yeah, I was going to mention that I did try some Rislone "rear main
>> seal repair" (ha ha, good marketing name) treatment and so far is
>> hasn't worked.  I will try something else or try again before I go
>> so far as to drop the tranny.  BTDT on an '88 5ktq and it's a bit
>> of a chore.
>>
>> http://www.rislone.ca/34250.htm
>>
>> Is there any particular brand of snake oil you recommend besides
>> that one?
>>
>> What it might be is that the clutch was replaced and they botched
>> the rear main seal install.  Actually that doesn't seem likely as
>> the PO family was more of the type to go to the dealer, I think.
>> Perhaps when I inspect things more closely I'll find that it's
>> coming from somewhere else nearby.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kenneth
>>
>> ---- Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net> wrote:
>>> Ken,
>>> Give those leaking rotary shaft seals the Snake Oil treatment. Mine
>>> are original at 230K and still running dry. Clutch also.
>>>
>>> Bernie
>>>
>>> 2
>>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:52 AM, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, my 200q20v has a leak apparently coming from the rear main
>>>> seal.  Even worse is that the clutch seems pretty good, it engaged
>>>> low near the floor and isn't hard to depress, which to mean means
>>>> it's still pretty meaty and may have been changed.  So either their
>>>> didn't change the rear main seal or when they did they screwed it
>>>> up.  Putz!  lol  I was considering just replacing just the seal to
>>>> save the clutch money for other stuff, which is potentially putzy
>>>> move, but it would come out of my own hobby labor rather than a
>>>> maintenance budget.
>>>>
>>>> So was the 034 200q20v a "one-off" build or is it something they  
>>>> are
>>>> offering?  I could not find it on the website.  You had it
>>>> installed for fitment testing and then gave it back to them?   So
>>>> they might have a prototype bouncing around?
>>>>
>>>> Did it drone?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Kenneth
>>>>
>>>> ---- robert weinberg <centaurus3200 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> the 034 200q20v turboback is proprietary to the 200q20v. i know
>>>>> this because they used my car to design the exhaust ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> i didn't buy it to keep it on the car because i was already angry
>>>>> at the car for pissing oil all over my garage and having to  
>>>>> replace
>>>>> the cam and crank seals.
>>>>> not really the car's fault because the previous owner replaced the
>>>>> timing belt
>>>>> 10k miles ago BUT did not replace the seals nor the waterpump and
>>>>> roller. putz!
>>>>>
>>>>> but the notion of blowing another grand on top of the repair
>>>>> bill was
>>>>> prohibitive at the time. i do wish i kept the exhaust in
>>>>> retrospect though. not
>>>>> sure how much they want for the turboback now - this was in 2008.
>>>>>
>>>>> see ya,
>>>>> Robby
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: "auditude at cox.net" <auditude at cox.net>
>>>>> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
>>>>> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 9:36:54 AM
>>>>> Subject: 034 turbo back on 200q20v? (firtment, instead of an S4/6)
>>>>>
>>>>> Referencing this thread from last month, has anyone installed an
>>>>> 034 turbo back exhaust on a 200q20v?  It's designed for a  C4
>>>>> S4/S6, which from the Stromung
>>>>> discussions has a different tailpipe location from the 200q20v but
>>>>> is otherwise
>>>>> close enough.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the tailpipe location issue the same as with the Stromung, or
>>>>> does 034 have some sort of a 200q20v-specific exhaust that I can't
>>>>> find on their website?
>>>>> Robby's post sounds as if there might be a variation specifically
>>>>> for the
>>>>> 200q20v.
>>>>>
>>>>> The 034 tailpipes look like they are slipped over the dual outlets
>>>>> of the Magnaflow muffler and welded directly to the back plate of
>>>>> the muffler body.  If
>>>>> there isn't already an accomodation for the 200q20v then it would
>>>>> be cool to be
>>>>> able to get the exhaust without the tips welded on (I'd still like
>>>>> to have the
>>>>> tips).  I noticed in the pics that the welds for the tips don't
>>>>> appear to be
>>>>> quite as awesome-looking (or at least not like the tiny perfect
>>>>> bicycle frame
>>>>> style welds) at the closeup pics of the downpipe welds at the WG
>>>>> merge joint,
>>>>> for example, so maybe they are put on at the end (of the process
>>>>> that is, ha ha)
>>>>> or manually or something.
>>>>>
>>>>> One more question, which maybe I'll find a answer better on
>>>>> Motorgeek, but with all the revisions to the Stromung system to
>>>>> elminate drone, how does the 034
>>>>> system fare for exhaust drone?  It just has just the one muffler
>>>>> at the end.
>>>>> The 034 system seems less expensive than the Stromung prices I'd
>>>>> heard from
>>>>> earlier group buys.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm curious at the moment because there's another round of  
>>>>> Stromung
>>>>> group buy going around and I'm asking myself the question about
>>>>> whether I want one for a
>>>>> 200q20v.  In upgrading a 200q20v, I prefer the mods to be
>>>>> transferrable to an
>>>>> urS-car in case I get one someday (and if I do that I'll want the
>>>>> tips to look
>>>>> as clean/original/unmodified as I can get them, but I'm thinking I
>>>>> can't have it
>>>>> both ways).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of that, does anyone have any pics of an unmodified
>>>>> Stromung on a 200q20v?  I know Taka had one on his car but he had
>>>>> extended the tips, and I
>>>>> don't recall seeing how that looked.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Kenneth
>>>>>
>>>>> robert weinberg centaurus3200 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "the 034 turbo back for the 200q20v is about $1k plus  
>>>>> installation,
>>>>> i believe. it
>>>>>
>>>>> is California legal. my guess is that they can use any cat with
>>>>> their exhaust - not just ones that will fit audi exhausts. hence
>>>>> the cats are cheaper."
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